... elephants at the makeshift zoo, and trying to find some famous Neuchatel chocolate. After, we got on a train to Basel where we walked around the city to St. Jakob park where the local football team plays. Basel is different from all the other Swiss cities. Itäs more like an American, modern, industrial city so it was hot, stuffy, and extremely polluted.

Thats about it for today, pictures will be up as soon as I can get wifi on my tablet. Kevin ...

Kuru hospitality is just so absolutely lovely. Sid and Muneera treated me to a wonderful Sunday and Rais charmed me from the moment he crawled out of his cot. Scrambled eggs (they are getting better every time I visit, Sid!) and croissants combined for a very relaxed breakfast and Rais provided the entertainment with a repertoire of hoovering, CBeebies dancing and lion impressions.

Starting this new blog is a strange feeling. I have just opened up the folder on our travel laptop titled 'blog entries' and, being Saturday 11th, I looked back to see what we were doing on the last Saturday 11th. It was June 2011 and we had just spent the day splashing our way across New Zealand’s North Island in heavy rain to reach a heavenly spot called Mount Manganui. The title was ‘California Dreamin’ as in a few days we ...

... to me. The golden rules of this trip is to listen carefully and watched closely.

The water are freezing, as this activities take places at the mountain where you are standing on snow still! Imagine how cold it can be! I can remember one of the thing we done is that, you will be doing something like the flying fox but when you have reach a certain point you are supposed to let go of your hand and drop into the water, the guide told me to ...